Status Updates From The Organization is Here to...

And then I knocked on the door, it opened, and as I saw inside, and what I saw—it was the beginning and the end of everything, the deep well from which springs all hope and all despair.

My basement apartment, from when I first started working at the agency, was pretty bare. When I moved into the units, I reduced my things again. Now looking around the room, I saw very few items around that could constitute my identity, in lack of any external reinforcement. If I reduced just a little more, I could fit them all on one trip on the light rail.

... founded on persisting principles, when in fact there were programs, policies, and people who had all been clarified out of existence.

In the organization, the word “clarify” was used as a euphemism, whenever we had to correct a mistake, update something that was obsolete, or completely change our policies. Every change was labeled a clarification, and the façade that we never really altered anything in a meaningful way helped to assure everyone that the organization was a durable and resilient organization, ...